Christians who support gay rights need to speak up against the deafening intolerance of those who say they speak for the rest of Christians, Leonard Pitts Jr. says.

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"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - attributed to Mohandas Gandhi

As Dan Savage tells it, it began years ago when he'd go on CNN or MSNBC to discuss LGBT issues opposite the likes of Tony Perkins. Perkins heads the Family Research Council, a leading purveyor of the fiction that homophobia and Christianity are synonymous and inextricable.

"And invariably, after I would have an argument with Tony Perkins," says Savage, "I would get e-mails from Christians and calls reassuring me that, in these exact words, 'We're not all like that. ...